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Technology Industry

Also Known As Tech Industry
Information Technology

The technology industry comprises companies engaged in the manufacturing, research, development and support of technology-intensive products and services, spanning computing, telecommunications and consumer electronics alongside digital electronics, software and internet-based services such as cloud storage and e-commerce. The sector is characterized by rapid innovation cycles and heavy investment in research and development. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Technology Industry
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Source Wikipedia, Amazon (company)
Source Wikipedia, Apple Inc.

Build to order is commonly cited for technology products such as computer servers, letting a business match production to demand exactly rather than holding finished stock.

Source Wikipedia, Business Process Outsourcing

Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation drew heavily on case studies from the computer disk drive and personal computing segments of the technology industry.

Source Wikipedia, Clayton Christensen
Coopetition, Business Models

Coopetition, simultaneous cooperation and competition between rivals, is commonly illustrated by technology and electronics companies that jointly develop components or standards while competing on finished products, such as Sony and Samsung joint LCD panel venture.

Crowdsourcing, drawing on a large distributed group for ideas, content or funding, is a practice widely adopted by technology-industry platforms.

Cybersecurity Industry, Industries

Cybersecurity software and services are a segment of the broader technology industry.

Source Wikipedia, Computer security

Defensive patent aggregators such as RPX Corporation buy up patents to shield paying member companies from infringement suits, a practice concentrated in the technology industry high patent-litigation environment.

Technology districts formed specifically around clusters of tech startups (entrepreneurial ventures by definition) opening alongside established tech companies; the industry's own account of its geography names startup formation as a driver.

Source Wikipedia, Technology Company
Freemium, Business Models

Freemium is one of the dominant monetization models for consumer software and mobile apps, and the source article dates the practice in the software industry specifically to the 1980s, well before the term itself was coined in 2006.

Source Wikipedia, Freemium
Source Wikipedia, Google
Source Wikipedia, IBM

Luis von Ahn co-founded reCAPTCHA and the language-learning technology company Duolingo.

Mass customization uses flexible, computer-aided manufacturing systems to tailor goods to individual specifications, tying the model to technology-industry advances in automation and configuration software.

Michael Dell founded and leads Dell Technologies, one of the world's largest technology infrastructure companies.

Source Wikipedia, Microsoft

The source traces platform business models to scholarly attention beginning in the 1990s, the same period the technology industry's own software and internet platforms took shape.

Source Wikipedia, Platform Economy
Product Bundling, Business Models

The seminal academic research on bundling economics, cited by the source article, found the strategy particularly effective for digital information goods, the technology industry's own product category, because of their near-zero marginal cost.

Source Wikipedia, Product Bundling
Semiconductor Industry, Industries

Semiconductor manufacturing, a $481 billion annual market as of 2018, underpins the broader technology industry's hardware base.

Source Wikipedia, Semiconductor Industry

Siemens is a diversified technology and industrial conglomerate spanning electronics, automation, healthcare and energy equipment, the same general categorization already used for other diversified electronics conglomerates in this section (Xerox, IBM, Toshiba, Eastman Kodak).

Source Wikipedia, Siemens Bribery Scandal

SaaS is a cloud computing service model, placing it within the technology industry.

Source Wikipedia, Software as a Service

SaaS is a cloud computing delivery model the source dates as beginning around 2000 and, by 2023, the main form of software application deployment, squarely a technology industry practice.

Source Wikipedia, Software as a Service

Wozniak designed the Apple I and Apple II, foundational products of the personal computer industry.

Source Wikipedia, Steve Wozniak
Superdistribution, Business Models

Superdistribution, a digital distribution model letting content spread freely between users while payment and rights are tracked centrally, depends on the technology industry file-sharing and rights-management infrastructure.

The source's own opening sentence places the telecommunications industry within the sector of information and communication technology.

Source Wikipedia, Telecommunications Industry

Value-added resellers, who bundle additional services or components onto a manufacturer's product before resale, are a long-standing distribution channel in the technology industry.

Venture Client, Business Models

The venture client model, pioneered at BMW, has since spread mainly among technology sector corporations seeking early access to startup innovation.

Video Game Industry, Industries

Video game development has driven and intersects heavily with the broader technology industry's hardware advances.

Source Wikipedia, Video Game Industry

A virtual organization coordinates geographically dispersed people and firms through information technology rather than a shared physical workplace, a structure the technology industry own communication and collaboration tools make possible.

The source article names software packages and consumer electronics among the mass-produced generic products most often white-labeled.

Source Wikipedia, White-Label Product

Companies In Industry

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

Source Wikipedia, Amazon (company)
Source Wikipedia, Apple Inc.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

Source Wikipedia, Google

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

Source Wikipedia, IBM

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

Source Wikipedia, JetBrains

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

Source Wikipedia, Microsoft

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

A major technology company; classified in the atlas technology-industry.

Sources
1. Wikipedia, Technology Company
Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    A technology company, or tech company, is a company that focuses primarily on the manufacturing, support, research and development of most commonly computing, telecommunication and consumer electronics based technology-intensive products and services, which include businesses relating to digital electronics, software, optics, new energy, and Internet-related services such as cloud storage and e-commerce services.
  • Details section, first sentence
    According to Fortune, as of 2020, the ten largest technology companies by revenue are: Apple Inc., Samsung, Foxconn, Alphabet Inc., Microsoft, Huawei, Dell Technologies, Hitachi, IBM, and Sony.
  • Associated With: Entrepreneurship, Details section
    As a result of numerous influential tech companies and tech startups opening offices in proximity to one another, a number of technology districts have developed in various areas across the globe.
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Wikipedia, Software as a Service
Wikipedia
  • Associated With: Software as a Service (SaaS), Lead section
    Software as a service (SaaS) is a cloud computing service model in which a provider delivers application software to clients while managing the required physical and software resources.
  • Associated With: Software as a Service (SaaS), History section
    The use of SaaS began around 2000, and by 2023 was the main form of software application deployment.
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Wikipedia, Microsoft
Wikipedia
  • Companies In Industry: Microsoft
  • Associated With: Microsoft Antitrust Case, Lead section
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Wikipedia, Apple Inc.
Wikipedia
  • Companies In Industry: Apple Inc.
  • Associated With: Apple Inc. Initial Public Offering, Lead section
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Wikipedia, JetBrains
WikipediaCompanies In Industry: JetBrainsView the Source
Wikipedia, Google
Wikipedia
  • Companies In Industry: Google, Infobox
  • Associated With: Google Initial Public Offering, Lead section
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Wikipedia, Amazon (company)
Wikipedia
  • Companies In Industry: Amazon, Infobox
  • Associated With: Amazon Initial Public Offering, Lead section
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Wikipedia, IBM
Wikipedia
  • Companies In Industry: IBM, Infobox
  • Associated With: IBM Antitrust Case, Lead section
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Wikipedia, Business Process Outsourcing
WikipediaAssociated With: Business Process Outsourcing, Types of BPO
Quote, Associated With: Business Process Outsourcing, Types of BPO
information technology-based, referred to as ITES (Information Technology Enabled Service)
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Wikipedia, Freemium
WikipediaAssociated With: Freemium, Lead section
Quote, Associated With: Freemium, Lead section
This business model has been used in the software industry since the 1980s
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Wikipedia, Product Bundling
WikipediaAssociated With: Product Bundling, Theoretical background section
Quote, Associated With: Product Bundling, Theoretical background section
Research by Yannis Bakos and Erik Brynjolfsson found that bundling was particularly effective for digital information goods with close to zero marginal cost.
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Wikipedia, White-Label Product
WikipediaAssociated With: White-Label Manufacturing, Common use section
Quote, Associated With: White-Label Manufacturing, Common use section
White label production is often used for mass-produced generic products including electronics, consumer products and software packages such as DVD players, televisions, and web applications.
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Wikipedia, Platform Economy
WikipediaAssociated With: Platform Business Model, History section
Quote, Associated With: Platform Business Model, History section
It wasn't until the 1990s that scholars began to focus on platforms as a distinct business model.
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Wikipedia, Telecommunications Industry
WikipediaAssociated With: Telecommunications Industry, lead section, opening sentence
Quote, Associated With: Telecommunications Industry, lead section, opening sentence
The telecommunications industry within the sector of information and communication technology comprises all telecommunication/telephone companies and Internet service providers, and plays a crucial role in the evolution of mobile communications and the information society.
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Wikipedia, Semiconductor Industry
WikipediaAssociated With: Semiconductor Industry, Introduction
Quote, Associated With: Semiconductor Industry, Introduction
The industry's annual semiconductor sales revenue has since grown to over $481 billion, as of 2018.
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Wikipedia, Video Game Industry
WikipediaAssociated With: Video Game Industry, Industry overview section
Quote, Associated With: Video Game Industry, Industry overview section
The video game industry has played an important role in improvement of computer hardware.
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Wikipedia, Siemens Bribery Scandal
WikipediaAssociated With: Siemens Bribery ScandalView the Source
Wikipedia, Steve Wozniak
WikipediaAssociated With: Steve WozniakView the Source
Wikipedia, Clayton Christensen
WikipediaAssociated With: Clayton ChristensenView the Source
Wikipedia, Computer security
WikipediaAssociated With: Cybersecurity IndustryView the Source
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